Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1879 — M—di—aka’s Thrilling Story. [ARTICLE]

M—di—aka’s Thrilling Story.

According to a St. Louis paper M—<ij- ska is writing a story for Scribner's Monthly. It is a love story. The heroine’s name is Griseldavltch Topplewatcbkitzky, and the hero’s, Vladimir Tschezarotsh. The scene is laid iu the quiet little Polish village Stirritupifvltch, on the banks of the classic River Muddibechky, in the region of the Kotzebutitzelosky Mountains. We extract a passage from advance sheets: “Within her wan hands she bad her face concealed, when to her Vladimir asked if she did truly lose him. ‘Yea, I lose thee; by yonder bale moon I adjure it.’ ‘Let us, then,’ said he, ‘flee,’ but she, hesitating by reason of her trunks, which being still unpacked. The tears wandered from her eyes, but meanwhile Vladimir repeated whaf for she would not be coming pretty soon, not having been aware of the gash the words of him made on the inside of her heart.” There are 130 students in attendence at Earlham College.